losvedir

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by losvedir 1y ago
That's not the point. While it's a valid sentence, as you point out, it means something different from "try and always tell the truth". In contrast "try to always tell the truth" and "try always to tell th
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> Note all three are monosyllable, unlike const and fn! I'm not sure if I'm parsing this right, but is the implication that "const" is not monosyllabic? It certainly is for me. How else do people say it? I get "f
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by losvedir 1y ago
Wait, isn't the Bernoulli effect thing they're demoing now wrong? I thought that was a "common misconception" and wings don't really work by the "longer path" that air takes over the top, and that it was m
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xAI trying to win the AI wars the way VHS beat Betamax.
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I think it's a similar thing to those who are morally invested in human overpopulation and not consuming resources for climate change reasons and such. The techno-optimist GLP analogs like solving these things with clean energy and oth
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by losvedir 1y ago
Yeah, I always chuckled at that. Where I worked out of college, "Vice President" was kind of the basic individual contributor, not counting interns and assistants and the like. From there it went to Senior VP, then Director, then
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by losvedir 1y ago
Thanks for this history, very interesting! I guess I can see the reasoning there, but as an Econ major who took 6.001 for fun, it makes me a little sad. That class was mindbending and so interesting.
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by losvedir 1y ago
> What is 75 degrees fahrenheit in celsius, and what is 85 degrees in fahrenheit Err, what? As a native English speaker human that's a pretty confusing question to me, too!
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by losvedir 1y ago
Which is all you need a lot of the time. If you're a hotel, or restaurant, or selling a product, or have a blog to share information important to you, then all you need is for the LLM to share it with the user. "Yes, there are a l
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by losvedir 1y ago
Consider picking up another language! I've found YA audiobooks (right now, Harry Potter) in my secondary language to be wonderful. It's interesting and engaging enough that I enjoy listening, and I don't feel like I need to &
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by losvedir 1y ago
Or a Tesla. I've done this exact thing, although the car just beeped at me and refused to go into reverse, of course.
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by losvedir 1y ago
I've been uneasy with the framing of the "lethal trifecta": * Access to your private data * Exposure to untrusted input * Ability to exfiltrate the data In particular, why is it scoped to "exfiltration"? I feel like
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by losvedir 1y ago
The problem is, as you say, eval() is still useful! And having LLMs digest or otherwise operate on untrusted input is one of its stronger use cases. I know you're pretty pro-LLM, and have talked about fly.io writing their own agents. D
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by losvedir 1y ago
Can any young person confirm that the original Jurassic Park is actually good? Now that I'm approaching middle age, I can't help but note that a lot of pieces like this are written by similar people who likely have a lot of nost
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> Glad to see Judge Alsup continues to be the voice of common sense in legal matters around technology Yep, that name's a blast from the past! He was the judge on the big Google/Oracle case about Android and Java years ago, I
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by losvedir 1y ago
Well "reasoning" refers to Chain-of-Thought and if you look at the generated prompts it's not hard to see why it's called that. That said, it's fascinating to me that it works (and empirically, it does work; a reaso
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by losvedir 1y ago
You... hang out with coyotes in the park? I live near a park with coyotes and all of us are wary of them. The people who walk their dogs frequently carry sticks. As a parent of a 1 yr old and 4 yr old who likes to let them have some degree
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by losvedir 1y ago
I disagree with the framing of "pissing in beer". To me it's more like companies have been giving me hot coffee for decades and now every time I get one they have to tell me, "careful! It's hot!" Like, yeah, I
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20 years ago I knew a bunch of people in their teens and early twenties. Now I know a bunch of people in their 40s and I couldn't tell you what the teens around me are doing. Are you sure you're not just picking up on the fact tha
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It's not radically different from, say 20 years ago, when there weren't all these phones.
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This is very neat, and right up my alley as both someone really into Elixir and who thinks agentic AI is the future. I have a question about how you manage context, and what model you use. Gemini seems the best at working with give context
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by losvedir 1y ago
I don't know, my guess would be that the majority of iPhones have their batteries upgraded. Apple currently still gives you money for trading in back to an iPhone 8! They probably upgrade the battery and put it up for sale in the devel
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by losvedir 1y ago
> modular, repairable, upgradeable laptops In terms of phones, I largely disagree with the conventional wisdom that repairable, upgradeable, Androids are better for the environment, more cost effective for the user, etc than iPhones. I
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by losvedir 1y ago
I did in that timeframe. To be clear, it's not "Mr Surname" but just plain "Surname". I have a lot of friends like that, "Boughter", "Mooney", etc. Not everyone, but particularly if the first nam
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by losvedir 1y ago
I actually think "heya phil" is more the norm than not. Certainly in tech that's the case. For example, we address the CEO of the company I work at (small but public) by her first name. From tuning into investor calls from my
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I don't use an iPad much, but it's been interesting to watch from afar how it's been changing over these years. They could have gone the direction of just running MacOS on it, but clearly they don't want to. I have a f
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I will never accept the horrifying word "earworm". As an American, it's always been "stuck in my head", and I first learned "earworm" years ago as a Britsh-ism. I hope that parasite stays across the pond,
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by losvedir 1y ago
Very cool! I've wondered how exactly, say, Claude Code knows about and uses tools. Obviously, an LLM can be "told" about tools and how to use them, and the harness can kind of manage that. But I assumed Claude Code has a very
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Oh, I hadn't seen that before. I thought this was going to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU
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I guess I don't really get the attack. The idea seems to be that if you give your Claude an access token, despite what you tell it that it's for, Claude can be convinced to use it for anything that it's authorized for. I thin

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